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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Talmun" data-source="post: 1479695" data-attributes="member: 17751">While I don’t particularly enjoy running combat with rats either (or dogs, rabbits, housecats, very small rocks…), I do enjoy most of the other things about a low level game, including the relative fragility of the PC’s.  IMO You don’t have to create unrealistic adventures just to keep them alive, you simple need to remember the limited resources on hand and plan accordingly when designing adventures – for instance, this last game started off with an urban storyline; the PC’s could get into fights with NPCs and deal with other low-level problems and then toddle off to a healer or a shop to get patched up.  In all the low level games I’ve run, no one has died at level one.  They have come mighty close, mind you…In all, I think the thrill and enjoyment (not to mention the pride of starting at 1st and going to 20th, or whatever) of very low-level D&D outweigh the drawbacks.  My $.02 anyway.</blockquote>